Use friend's internet connection

[DamonX]

Why not? If he's in the same LAN as the OP.

@paradox
In fact, of you're in the same LAN i.e. behind the same nat box, I'll say fire up ettercap and try getting some login creds for the ISP

If Paradox was in the same LAN as his friend, that means both have the same Internet connection  .  They are definitely not in same LAN. 


@Paradox,


I think your friend might be talking about compromising someone's wireless access point, and joining it to download files and stuff?  I can't make sense of the fact that you can compromise someone's computer and increase your bandwidth.  Wouldn't it still use your bandwidth when transferring traffic from his connection to yours?  Wouldn't your own bandwidth will create a bottleneck as it can't transfer large data that your friend connection could?  I might be thinking too much tho 

[silenthunder]

Are you sure you're not confusing Mbps with Mb/s? It's a common mistake, and ISPs take advantage of that.

Um, really I'm not sure. I picked the internet speed with mom, and the one we chose said that we'd be able to download 32 megs of data a second, idk if thats MB/s or MBps.. but that's what it said, and we're barely getting half that. Of course, it's on old wires and a somewhat old modem too. I'm sure fiberoptics and a newer modem would help substantially.

[0poitr]

 

If Paradox was in the same LAN as his friend, that means both have the same Internet connection  .  They are definitely not in same LAN. 

On the same LAN doesn't mean same internet package.
ISPs cap speed based on who logs in and the plan they are subscribed to.

[Snayler]

Um, really I'm not sure. I picked the internet speed with mom, and the one we chose said that we'd be able to download 32 megs of data a second, idk if thats MB/s or MBps.. but that's what it said, and we're barely getting half that.

32Mbps is actually 32 megabits per second. In order to get the value of your speed in Megabytes per second, you need to divide the Mbps value by 8.

32 / 8 = 4 Megabytes per second (max. speed).

This is because each byte is composed by 8 bits (1's and 0's).

(...)said that we'd be able to download 32 megs of data a second(...)

This is were they've tricked you, by not specifying which value they're talking about ("megs").

And BTW, 4 MB/s is actually pretty good. Mine reaches 1,2 MB/s max.

[parad0x]

0poitr,  we are not in any lan.
If I want to hack his pc, it would come under remote hacking. I want to use his internet connection remotely.

[WirelessDesert]

parad0x; to sum this thread up.
It's not physically possible.

[DamonX]

parad0x; to sum this thread up.
It's not physically possible.

lies ... nothing is impossible   

[proxx]

Hes right.

Some years ago I worked for a cable company (DOCIS)
We had customers that had these old thompson modem.
They had contracts that where a couple years old and relatively expensive for that day standards.
A few of them ran reverse engineered firmware.
Basically they removed the speedlock that was built in the firmware.
The funny thing is we knew about it.

They company just let them because the outdated overpriced contract made sure they paid too much anyway.